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My Biggest Losses Came From Being Too Loyal

Sometimes caring too much can be dangerous
There is always a reflection of Cain and Abel next to you
It is good to love in stages
So that you don’t allow yourself to end up in a cage
And be enslaved by a misguided notion

My biggest losses came from being too loyal
Often we look at people with a royal outlook
But this can be disastrous
Your enemies are not strangers
Sometimes those that love us the most
Betray us the worst!
We pick our friends and love ones but
In the end, in real situations we sort them out
Then, we find out our true companions!

Sometimes silence is better than unnecessary drama
Because you can easily sense a jealous spirit, negative energy
And most of all, a miserable person

My biggest losses came from being too loyal
Your enemies are not strangers
They are people you know so remember that
There is always a reflection of Cain and Abel next to you

Mark Frank

Copyright 2023
© Mark Frank  Create an image from this poem.


You Think You Can Control Me

If you were a friend of mine 
Down until the end of time 
And I left you a friend behind 
Do you think there’s no reason why? 

You can blame it on my mind 
Claim the reasons you are blind 
plead innocent to any crime
don’t understand why you’re behind 

You can play it like a fool 
avoid being accountable 
be upset and miserable 
make all appear my fault 

And while you play it so clueless 
it proves my point that you are useless 
as you lie and make up excuses 
Justifies why your not included 

Because you never make mistakes 
You clearly are a bunch of fakes 
Failure to give but quick to take 
This is why you’re not my mates 

Thinking you are so damn clever 
When you talk you talk forever 
Sounding like you know much better
No close to you not ever 

When I tell you go away 
You say you’ll ring another day
And I tell you to go away 
“We’ve made up is what you say” 

People thinking we are cool 
When they listen to your bull 
Do I not get a voice at all 
Get out my life you flipping fool 

It is shocking but consistent 
you lying with such insistence 
suddenly I’m talking vicious 
I had to you disrespect my wishes 

You have to make yourself look good 
as a result I’m misunderstood 
If you’d Let it go like you should 
I wouldn’t have said it the way it was 

Now your seeking legal advice 
my talk is truthful and it ain’t nice 
but you ignored me all my life 
and I’m sick of hearing all your lies 

They think they’re so much better 
more attractive and more clever 
in my defeat your my successor 
I get told “they think they’re better” 

Something I have always known 
now others can detect your tone 
You ain’t got no one you’re alone 
in a world you create your own 

You’re lucky that I’m talking 
you just ain’t worth the stalking 
you need to stop your talking 
You talk and no one’s falling
© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Sadist

Pain.
Torture.
Suffering.
He enjoys it.
He thrives for it.
He burns for it.
He’ll cause torment for fun.
He’ll make you miserable,
just for laughs.
He finds it entertaining.
He’s like a demon,
he’s summoned by name.
All he cares about is pleasure and fame.
He wishes for fun,
even in darker places.
He seeks it out in malicious phases.
He is hell incarnate.
He will mock.
He will tease.
He will punish.
All for his own enjoyment.
Make him mad;
you’ll pay the price.
Obey;
you may be spared.
There is no stopping him.
He will break,
tear,
rip apart,
your mind and sanity,
until he finds someone else,
just a little more entertaining than you.
 That’s how a sadist lives.
How a sadist can progress.
That’s how hell's incarnate thrives.
Destroying lives; making them a mess.

The Way They Meet

The clouds are rolling and the rivers are flowing
The birds are singing and the bells are ringing
I have come to this place to unite the human race
But some people have overstepped the boundaries 
And have gone past their places and get entwined
in another phase. I have witnessed the sun and the
moon crossing path in the middle of the dark and
the wind mesmerizing and singing a bountiful hymn 
One cast plays the tune for the man that is coming 
From the moon. You cannot trust the moon walkers 
and the sky stalkers who take rocks to the moon 
and pour water on ships to prove that there is water 
to swim. Why do you want to seize power in an hour?
When I have spent forty years researching rocks and
Water on the moon, you are space copycat and
And a secret conniving  rat
There is a solace in the moon that is taking shape
And moving towards the middle of gate, 
The big band is playing the New Orleans jazz sound
And the visitors are moving around,
 They are walking up down Kitchen Street 
And looking for something to eat
They are showing off their cultural clout 
And walking around with a  nasty frown
I have not seen a parade since I got here
And the dancers and hookers have disappeared 
There is nothing to share and the rum is drying up
And the people are running around with much fuss
I can tell that the end is near and the mountains
will soon disappear, victory will be on the run
And we will have the much needed fun
Bad men will get up and run and hand over their
guns, the fussy cussy people will run away
And the music will slowly fade away 
The streets will left bare and empty and
Shops will hold on to their misery 
The town will shake in the middle of the night
and the wind will blow in full magnitude
And a new energy will flow through the miserable town
I will board the plane and fly away in the middle of the day
I can see the seagulls dancing around on the shores
endorsing the creeps with their long beaks
Busting it up from the ocean floor
The ice is melting and ocean fish is surfacing
Multitudes of then appears from the bottom of the ocean. 
Flipping and flopping on the dry land and walking hand in hand
That is the way they meet.
Form: Narrative

Weighed Down Part 2

We all have a thief dying to come out
We must control that side of us…We must undo that knot (we must solve the case)
We are victims in our own minute minds…no doubt
We must arrest that criminal…before it causes mischief and what not (find your own way out of my maze)

Reawaken from solitude
The sun’s rising…and you’re frustrated and nude
Stray away into the path of delight…before the day turns to night
Don’t miss the words from my mouth…echoing heaven’s light

Descending in quietude
Don’t look my direction…I weep for safety’s sake…
Show off your effulgence…your delicate, serene tune…
I don’t mean to be rude…but please lift up my mood
Arise as the moon in the shady night…

Promise me you won’t break
Your life isn’t at stake…
I love you for cat’s sake! 

(chorus) Weighed down…
I’m wearing a remorseful frown…
Weighed down…
Gravity holds me down 
To the ground…
without a sound….
Face down…
Without a sound…
left there without a sound…
Without a sound…
no one cared…
they never did 
from the start
And it breaks my heart
To say this, 
but I feel this way…
And I don’t want to 
fade away…
Left without a trace…
Look at my bloodied face 
And solve this bewildering, 
Outlandish case
While you do that, 
I’ll be running the race
But, I’ve learned 
That we all wear that mask…of a miserable clown 

Swim with me 
Promise me
You’ll be my candlelight 
On the surface of the chaotic sea
Will you be so kind to stay by my side for awhile?
Don’t fly too high
Like a kite caught in the wind…

Don’t drift away…don’t fade to gray…
Form: Lyric


Premium Member Wounded Sigh

A crumbling cabin, a jungle deep,
An old soldier trudging by,
Imagining he heard, in the breeze,
A ghostly, wounded sigh.

This elder sat 'neath a mangrove
To ease his creaking bones, 
His uneasy mind accompanied   
By the wind's eerie moans.

The groans metamorphosed to words,
As mournfully they spoke
About an injury so grave,
And a heart and soul, which broke.

"A strong youth, fastest in my school,  
Brimming with hope and fun,
I couldn't outrun a speeding bullet,
Blasted from a cruel gun.

Stripped of hope, left a broken cripple, 
Of no use to anyone,
I couldn't envision a future -
A day past twenty-one. 

It wasn't just a body blow,
But one to my emotions,
As a gap 'tween me and my mates
Grew as vast as oceans.

All the love I had to offer,
Were stained with weakness, and pain,
So, I was nothing more than a
Miserable ball and chain.

I slipped into the dark jungle,
All hidden and remote, 
Where nobody would need to hear
Cries issued from my throat.

My cabin had enough space for
One table and one chair.
It was a blessed relief to know,
No one could find me there."

The glum words urged the drifter's heart
And drew him to the hut.
The image in the table's chair 
Then, punched him in the gut.

The old man's mournful, decaying face  
Stopped and froze him in place. 
The grim, unsettling vision was 
His own crestfallen face.
Form: Rhyme

Futile Escape Out Clutches of Penury Rattle Tin Can Once

finds yours truly groveling along
February third 2022,
never linkedin - analogous to stray animal  
without being befriended, 
thus I don't belong
survival instincts taught yours truly
the necessity acting 
courageous and headstrong

even if necessary 
to stare down King Kong,
who actually shows me respect
such that every now and again 
we play a game of ping pong
and on a crisp night 
roast marshmallows kindle campfire 
and sing Kumbaya song.

This tramp (which stereotyped
caricature familiarly epitomized 
in countless Chaplinesque productions, 
Dickensian tales, 
oil paintings from 
artistic hands of great masters 
and others anonymous 
exquisite painters, et cetera) 
remembers practically nothing 
of me nine-month stay in utero
birth, childhood nor early adulthood.

My amorphous gauzy, 
hazy fractal memories 
solely comprise fractured, 
fragmented and splintered collection 
of miserable experiences, 
which characterize living 
a hellacious hand to mouth 
hard scrapple existence.

Past wispy vestiges of wretchedness 
and now present woebegone existence 
seems a worse fate than death.

The overpowering urge to survive 
and summon up one barely audible 
l’chaim utterance against the depredations 
of the grim reaper only found 
nothing but defeat.

That daily dismal 
grinding away of last shreds 
of a purpose driven life fending off real 
and imagined threats sought salvation 
in a vividly encased jammed 
preserve of mine imagination 
an existence awash with ample 
trappings of comfort.

A eulogy for the me I had to kill to survive

A eulogy for the me I had to kill to survive 

She lay in a casket 
I was the killer 
But was it really me?
When the world gripped her hand and told her to kill her blackness 
She stared in a mirror
Full of sadness
Knowing she would kill her last bit of innocence 
So did I allow her to kill that part of herself
Or was it the fault of the system itself?

I the only attendee at her funeral
I the only person who would understand her death was about survival
Either way she was miserable 
Even in death her silence was painful 
Would this mean she would always struggle?

I say my final goodbyes to the girl I was
Her mind strong but not strong enough 
To live in a world where her blackness was starved 
A slow and painful death that carved 
A scar in her heart
A forever reminder of what I lost

Premium Member Soulful Gratitude

In the difficult times of 2020 like these, 
I’m restrained to do things that I’d please. 
Life has lost rhythm in chaos of uncertainty, 
but I go on getting spontaneous help in plenty. 

Disconnected from outside world in isolation, 
I don’t spend the stalled time in dull desolation. 
To the helping hands of the neighbors I get access, 
in appreciation I’m overwhelmed by their  kindness.  

How long would the trying times be I don’t know, 
but they won’t let my fragile morale plummet low. 
Even if black clouds disappear from my sky some day, 
priceless debt to all these people I won’t be able to repay.
 
In their support the benevolence of God I see, 
lifting my spirit from the abyss of miserable worry. 
When the mind is permeated by hazy hope for nothing, 
my soul is filled with gratitude, for they gave me His blessing.

December 13, 2020
Contest : Your Soul 2020
Sponsor : Chantelle Anne Cooke
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Gold Wine

Webinar expires today!
Kids pick up, read to and play
Washing needs to be hung out
Dishwasher’s ready for clearing out
Cat needs taking to the vet
Bills need sorting - post pile turning into monument!
Dusting, vaccing all needs to be done
Or and the shopping too - and remember to use the pricing gun!
Plants need sorting - they’re sat out there looking as miserable as sin!
Stupid weather 20degrees then back to 3 again!
Switching suppliers to make ends meet
Traffic jams at the bottom of the street
Boss wants more work in the allocated time
Overtime pay! You may as well as ask for gold wine!

Diesel car bought when the government said that’s the way
Now killing everything on the planet every time I drive on my way?

Diesel fuel will soon be more expensive than house!
Oh and student loan forever I forgot about that!

Facebook, Twitter are you out of your mind? Stopping to breathe is difficult to find!

Remember the gym or you’re just a loser who can’t cope!

Manage stress? What the hell is that? We’re english and we don’t suffer that????     

10pm and sat in bed? Quiet time while mind wonders about the next problem!

Welcome to grown up life - just another 50 years before you can get your pension!

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